petersburg academy of sciences, only its president, lavrenti lavrentievich, blumentrost was russian.ry, brothers daniel and nikolai bernoulli headed the department of physiology and mathematics, after the lecture, daniil was engaged in medical practice, he himself visited patients, received them at home, restored limbs that seemed to be subject to amputation, treated stomach and heart diseases, and colds. at his invitation , another future great scientist , leonard euler, arrived in russia. swiss mathematician, mechanic and physicist during his life. wrote about 850 scientific papers, most of them in russia, at the st. petersburg academy of sciences he was a professor of physics, headed the department of mathematics, developed methods for raising large bell in the moscow kremlin. even when eller lost his sight, he continued to work for the benefit of science, dictated texts, and his student translated them into russian. empress catherine invited the best ophthalmologist of that time for him. euler underwent surgery and saw the light again. despite the warning, the scientist began to